Last week the News spoke with former professional footballer Ian McHattie about his recollections of Pele, against whom he played in the early 1970s.
And it was a remarkable tale of how a lad from Palnure ended up taking the pitch against arguably the world’s greatest ever exponent of the beautiful game.
In the passing, Ian told me a little about his life – which not entirely to my surprise was no less colourful than his encounter with Pele.
